How to Use hunker in a Sentence

hunker

verb

• At one point, one of the males hunkered down in the woods.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018
• At least those lucky enough to hunker down in the first place.
  — Matthew Pillsbur, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• Cheers to the guy who hunkered down in his chair and rode it out.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
• The two hunkered down on the 40-acre parcel, thick with brush.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Don’t pull a cap over your eyes and hunker down in your chair.
  — Fern Kupfer, Twin Cities, 2 Sep. 2019
• Until the week is over, hunker down — the heat is on its way.
  — Nicole Blackwood, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2019
• Or has the last year been a time to hunker down and save money and pay off debts?
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
• So, Chris: Friday’s just gonna be a day to hunker down.
  — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
• Some have gotten out of the way, some have hunkered down.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Well, those who stay are going to have to be hunkered down for the next 48 hours.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
• Some adopt a woe-is-us mindset and hunker down in their fraidy holes to wait out the storm.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• After the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Biles didn't just hunker down in front of the TV.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Along the route, others had hunkered down in their spots for hours.
  — Dugan Arnett, Jerome Campbell, Eric Moskowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• In the weeks ahead, wear a mask, social distance, and hunker down.
  — Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Upon reaching Camp 4, the team hunkered down for the night.
  — Ash Routen, Outside Online, 23 May 2018
• But like people who might hunker down when stressed, the snake could be doing the same, Kennedy said.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
• This could be a good week to hunker down and focus on study or research.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
• Time to huddle up and hunker down for the first night of the 2021 NFL Draft as teams try to bolster their rosters.
  — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2021
• The last third are poor people, who have little choice but to hunker down.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
• If possible, try to hunker down in one room with the rest of your household.
  — Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• The program was to throw spinners in the fast stuff, and hunker down with bait in the slower, deeper runs.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 June 2020
• In dense cover, a buck might only bound 150 yards and hunker down.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
• This Sunday, the three hunkered down in his MacArthur Park apartment.
  — latimes.com, 15 July 2019
• Get ready to hunker down on the couch and revisit these throwback gems.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 16 Nov. 2022
• See friends and resume normal life, or hunker down again - and if so, for how long, to what end?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
• See friends and resume normal life, or hunker down again — and if so, for how long, to what end?
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• Some of them may try to make a go of it and either thrive or die out, but others will hunker down and wait.
  — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
• You’d be forgiven for wanting to hunker down on the couch with your phone and tune it all out.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• At one point in 1958, troops there hunkered in bunkers as Communist forces rained hundreds of thousands of shells on them.
  — Amy Chang Chien, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• While most everyone in the area hunkered in basements, a team of nine scientists — storm chasers — sought to get as close as possible to the twisters.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024